#3542 colon-close parenthesis hides word in IE 6.0.2900 XPSP2

[james knochel]

comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?
sid=172190&cid=14343219

line in question displays in IE
6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 as: "I had a
roommate in college who was a natural with anything
chemistry-related. I propose that the reason he's so
good is because he's done it :)" ["before." is
missing before ":)"]

I wrote: "I had a roommate in college who was a
natural with anything chemistry-related. I propose
that the reason he's so good is because he's done it
before. :)"

This is also what IE copies when I select/copy/paste
into [text editor], and is what is displayed in IE
when I hit 'reply' to my comment.

Source for both regular/reply views is the
same: "before.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)"

thx,
j.k.

[Matt Sicker]

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Odd. There is no such tag as "wbr" according to the HTML4 spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html

Nor is it in HTML3.2.

http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML32.dtd

What _is_ <wbr/> ?